ALA Midwinter Discussion: Usage Based Pricing

["October Ivins" <october.ivins@mindspring.com>]

ALA Midwinter Discussion: Usage Based Pricing

If you're attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio, and 
interested in how usage is and could be applied to journal and database 
pricing, please attend our discussion group session. Ever evolving pricing 
models can address usage in a variety of ways.  Panelists representing 
multiple aspects of the publishing and library community will each suggest 
a few points for inclusion in the discussion.  The moderator will 
encourage attendee participation.  Topics are likely to cover:

. What are the challenges and who might benefit from this trend?

. What current models include a usage component and what can we learn from 
them?

. Does usage based pricing offer a way for librarians to increase the 
range of content they can offer users without breaking the bank?  But at 
whose expense?

. Can COUNTER statistics collection help make this feasible and fair? Is 
additional development needed?

. How would this concept apply to consortial purchases?

This meeting of the ALCTS SS Journal Costs in Academic Libraries 
Discussion Group takes place Saturday, Jan. 21st from 4-6 pm in the 
Gonzalez Convention Center, Room 204B.  Please bring your ideas and 
questions!

Our panelists are:

Robert W. Boissy, Manager Agency Relations, Springer
Daniel H. Jones, Librarian, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
Christine Martire, Director for Strategic Partnerships, PALINET
Aileen McHugh, Director of Electronic Publishing, Project MUSE and Johns
 	Hopkins University Press
John McDonald, Acquisitions Librarian, California Institute of Technology
Will Wakeling, Associate Director for Collections and Technical Services,
 	Northeastern University

October Ivins, Discusson Group Chair
Ivins eContent Solutions
telephone 781-793-9283 (EST)
october.ivins@mindspring.com